Question My Motherboard

Terribly old motherboard. But the best processors that will fit are the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650. You can go for the Core 2 Extreme QX9650, but I've heard it costs as much as a second hand, full system.

The G41 chipset is PCI Express 2.0 compatible. I wonder if the GTX 1050 is not going to work at it's rated performance, because the bandwidth on the PCI-E 2.0 slot is much lower than on 3.0.